That was despite an incident at the Pro Bowl in Hawaii in January when a drunken Brown was removed by NFL security after trying to bash in his wife's hotel door.

Nonetheless, this April the team brought Brown back and signed him to a new two-year contract. When Daily News sports columnists questioned the moves, the Giants dismissed the criticism.

Big bruise (Tom Canavan/AP)

The dangerous deflections blew up in the team and the league's faces Wednesday — with the freedom-of-information release by the police department in Washington State's King County of several of Brown's own journals and emails.

In them, he admitted to "physically, verbally and emotionally" abusing his wife, often in front of their children.

In 2014, after Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice was caught on elevator video hitting his then-fiancée, the NFL — in midst of a public uproar — lifted what had been a two-game suspension of Rice and imposed an indefinite one. The league then rolled out a new policy mandating a minimum six-game suspension for domestic abusers.